The lift parked in the alley behind the DePaul Building is down low enough for Duncan Jago to chat. The Bristol artist’s black pants are spattered with the same pink, lavender and aqua paints he and assistant Joe Murdter have been putting up on the building’s south wall, just across the street from the mural […]
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The Faraway Nearby
Old Town Eureka twanged with the shock of the new last week when street artist Dan Kitchener unveiled an enormous new mural in its midst, the first to grace the city in several years. “Electric-City” is executed entirely in freehand spray paint on the east side of the Buhne Building at the corner of G […]
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Done Fishing
While you’re out at Arts Alive in Eureka tonight, look up. Turns out those Escher-esque fish on the side of Scrapper’s Edge weren’t all there before. Kati Texas, Director of the Rural Burl Mural Bureau (like a mouthful of marshmallows) and her team of teen artists have completed the “Fishstellation” on the side of Scrapper’s […]
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Creamery Fest Mural Saved From Destruction
As if Creamery Festival organizer Jackie Dandeneau didn’t have enough going on, what with preparing for the first-ever three-day celebration of the up-and-coming arts district, here was a City of Arcata worker tsk tsking the mural she and seven other artists had livened up the intersection of Ninth and L streets with. Dandeneau initially feared […]